As a 26-year-old entrepreneur, Ophir Rahimi owns and operates several e-commerce businesses.

Tom Cingari Jr. is Vice President, Produce, Floral, and E-Commerce across all Cingari Family ShopRite locations.

Max Tucci is the Third Generation Partner and Global Brand Officer of Delmonico’s New York.

Nikki Baird is the vice president of strategy at Aptos, a retail enterprise solution provider. She looks after the future of retail and retail technology and identifies their impacts on both retail strategy and solutions. She has been a top global retail industry influencer for 20+ years, with a background in retail and technology.

Straight forward, independent, no-nonsense advice is not easy to find. This is a must-read book for every budding and existing coffee shop entrepreneur.

For most of her life Wendy Liebmann been passionate about the convergence of consumers, shopping and retail.

Nana's is a family-oriented, Louisiana/Maryland style diner.

First things first: the bagels. Shug’s “Store 1,” just steps from SMU, smells exactly like a bagel store should smell, which is not a surprise as every day they make all of their dough from scratch, in-house, then make their bagels the artisanal, old-fashioned way.

Clutch Coffee was born in the Carolinas in 2018. With 20+ years of drive-thru coffee experience, combined with a burning desire to revitalize the lost art of customer service, they set out on a quest to build the best drive-thru beverage experience on the planet.

Deborah Weinswig is the founder and CEO of Coresight Research. Between 2014 to early 2018, Deborah served as Managing Director of Fung Global Retail and Technology (FGRT), the think tank of Fung Group.

Kimberly Carney is the Founder and CEO of FashWire and GlossWire. Kimberly holds 15+ years of experience of owning a multi-brand women’s and men’s specialty boutique in the contemporary fashion space.